The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Losing my mind.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗
Clothes moths (and the imminent threat of world war three).
Being found out.
The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.
Losing consciousness or awareness.
Comparing myself to other people.
Curious, suggestible, silly.
I cry all the time. Films can tip me over. Especially Pixar ones. I alarmed my kids when we went to see Coco – I was a mess. I cried at the Elton John gig at Glastonbury.
Stress is bad for your health.
The perimenopause.
I’d drink less alcohol in the 90s.
Bob Schieffer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patti LuPone, Ernest Borgnine, Natalie Imbruglia, Su Pollard
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